Villain Princess.
Chapter 45: Knights

Chapter 45: Knights

With Mr. Wren’s own power, he couldn’t really help his family much. However, he was happy to be able to serve Duke White.

Through generations, his family had served White Dukedom.

They don’t expect having great power as long as they were able to be of help to the duke and manage the territory well. This was why Mr. Wren immediately came when Duke White asked him to come and taught Aurora.

As for his children, Mr. Wren’s two children were not that bad. His first son will replace him in the future while his second child were working hard to become a knight. If he could become a knight and earned enough merit, it was not impossible for him to become a baron too.

In that situation, it would have been much better for them.

"Is he training with White Family’s knight?" Aurora asked another question.

Mr. Wren was stunned and then nodded. "Yes, Miss Aurora, my second son is training with the White Family’s Knights."

Aurora tapped the table and then said, "I would like to meet him tomorrow if you don’t mind."

"Miss...?"

"I don’t have a personal knight yet," Aurora said slowly. "It’ll be troublesome for me to borrow knights from my father all the time."

Most nobles would have knights protecting them and a personal knight was someone who would take care their lord, whether it was a he or she. A noble could have one or two personal knight most of the time and some of people with higher status could even have more knights.

For example, Duke White has a few personal knights who would protect him and follow his order no matter what. These knights were loyal to him and had been cultivated by him ever since they were young.

Aurora herself didn’t have any personal knight yet.

In the past, she didn’t really go anywhere and the other knights in Duke White’s Residence could be ordered to temporarily protect her. But since Aurora would be going to the Red Kingdom once a year if the negotiation was held there, it would be better for her to have a personal knight.

A knight who will only follow her order.

Mr. Wren was stunned. He naturally knew about the matter of personal knights, but becoming the knight of the White Dukedom meant that his second son would not be able to become a noble. For now, he was taking advantage of his relationship with the White Dukedom to let his second son practiced.

But he also knew that if his second son were to be asked to follow White Dukedom, then there were more advantage than disadvantage.

Even though he couldn’t become a noble, his second son would have more resources and would be protected until he truly grew up. Going out on his own as a commoner knight would mean that his path was arduous.

No parents want their children to suffer.

At least, Mr. Wren didn’t want to.

However, he knew that his second son wanted to become a nobility too.

"I have to ask my second son about this first, Miss..."

"There’s no hurry, I have to take a look at him first, right?" Aurora asked with chuckle. "If he’s not suitable, I can just pick other knights."

There was no lack of knights in White Dukedom’s Territory. If Aurora truly wanted to, her father can let these knights gather for her to pick someone as her personal knight.

Besides, Aurora was not in a hurry to pick a personal knight for herself.

"Yes, Miss." Mr. Wren could only nod helplessly.

Aurora shook her head and then focused her attention back to the paper in front of her. There were still a lot of information that she had to remember.

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The next day, Aurora went with Mr. Wren to pay a visit to the knights who were training after her own training. There were many knights there and some of them were older while some others were younger.

"The children of other nobles who will not inherit their father’s titles are also here," Mr. Wren explained.

These people could have followed their older brother, but some of them refused that kind of arrangement. They would rather follow other lords so as not to be reminded that they were lower than their brother.

Only those who had good relationship with each other or could convince their brothers to follow them would have their brothers become their knights. But this kind of thing rarely happened.

Most of the time, the knights would go to serve other lords or become an ordinary knight of the kingdom.

"I understand," Aurora replied and looked around.

"Miss Aurora, that’s my son, William, over there," Mr. Wren introduced his son and brought Aurora closer to where his second son was training.